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Here's what Gen X should know about retirement 12/29/2024 07:00pm • They grew up with a soundtrack that may have included disco or punk and can probably name at least one of the 1980s Brat Pack actors. They are the oldest members of Generation X, and they will turn 60 in 2025. "There's a wide range of people in Generation X," says Daniel Razvi, senior partner and DC-area leaders mourn death of Jimmy Carter 12/29/2024 10:05am • Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at 100. The Georgia peanut farmer served one turbulent term in the White House before building a reputation as a global humanitarian and champion of democracy. D.C.-area politicians and leaders have been sharing their condolences for the longest-l Md. officials optimistic rise in health insurance coverage will continue in open enrollment 12/24/2024 06:15pm • Enrollment in the state’s health insurance marketplace has already risen during the current open enrollment period, and state officials are optimistic those numbers will increase before enrollment closes this month. Or next. Open enrollment ends Dec. 31 for anyone who wants coverage to start on Alexandria City Public Schools to launch new safety measures after fights leave students, staff injured 12/21/2024 07:33am • Virginia's Alexandria City Public Schools will implement new safety and security measures at Alexandria City High School after winter break. The announcement comes in the wake of a series of fights at the school's King Street campus around noon Tuesday that kept students held up in classrooms and Politics, not technology, would be hardest part of potential TikTok ban 12/19/2024 05:28am • The battle over TikTok's future might be drawn out through legal maneuvering or political posturing, but if the Chinese-owned social media app loses those battles, the technological battle for its life will be over fast. Faced with a looming deadline to sell or be blocked from U.S. servers, the U Trump Impact: New legislation seeks to protect federal workers from winds of political change 12/17/2024 06:43pm • This story is part of WTOP’s ongoing series, Trump Impact, which looks at how the new administration could change the D.C. region. Democratic U.S. senators from Virginia and Maryland sought unsuccessfully to pass new legislation Tuesday that would protect federal civil servants from being Mystery drone sightings continue in New Jersey and across the US. Here's what we know 12/16/2024 07:44pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over New Jersey and across the eastern U.S., sparking speculation and concern over where they came from and why. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and U.S. Sen. Andy Kim have both gone out on drone hunts, hoping for an Metro is getting its budget process underway for the next fiscal year 12/14/2024 04:08am • Metro unveiled its initial budget proposal for the next fiscal year on Thursday — and it includes additional bus and rail service. Changes include more peak-capacity service on Metrorail with longer operating hours on weekends. The rail map would also see some slight changes with half of northbou Data Doctors: Why the FBI warning on texting applies to everyone 12/13/2024 09:22am • Q: The FBI warning about text messaging has me a bit confused. I’m not a government worker, so what exactly is the risk for me? A: The recent discovery that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had infiltrated the U.S. telecommunications networks led to the FBI warning. This realization, along wi Bracing for a ban, Maryland TikToker says users 'can't put all their eggs in one basket' 12/12/2024 09:58pm • As a possible ban on the popular video app TikTok gets closer, content creators are preparing for a source of revenue to disappear. "I've already started to focus more on Instagram and YouTube than I have anything else," said Justin Carmona, who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Carmona has nearly ‘I never got the impression he would self-destruct:’ Friends of suspect in fatal CEO shooting left in shock 12/10/2024 09:00am • (CNN) — Months before police identified Luigi Mangione as the man they suspect gunned down a top health insurance CEO and then seemingly vanished from Midtown Manhattan, another disappearing act worried his friends and family. The 26-year-old scion of a wealthy Baltimore family who was a high s The worst telecommunications hack in US history: Chinese cyber group 'Salt Typhoon' intrusions likely started years ago 12/06/2024 01:14pm • There are an estimated 128,000 telecommunications companies in the U.S. that serve hundreds of millions of subscribers. U.S. intelligence sources and officials indicate Chinese government-sponsored hackers have been secretly lurking around the decrepit routers and switches that connect this massive Police nationwide illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime, investigation shows 12/05/2024 08:35am • â–¶ Watch Video: Police across the U.S. are illegally selling firearms, CBS News investigation finds Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable 13-year-old girl ordered held for 8 years in beating death of Reggie Brown 12/04/2024 07:01pm • A 13-year-old girl who was convicted of murder in the 2023 death of 64-year-old Reggie Brown in D.C. was sentenced Wednesday to eight years of confinement. The girl, whose identity has not been made public as she's a minor, will serve the allotted time at a secure juvenile facility. While walk New rule could stop sale of your personal information 12/03/2024 11:30am • It’s not just hackers that can get your data for scams and other nefarious purposes. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is aiming to regulate data brokers that are allowed to sell that personal information. “Data brokers — the outfits that collect and sell — are making this data ava